[SOLVED] How to tell Homebrew to install inside virtualenv?

Issue

Here's my problem. I can't install MatPlotLib both via pip and from source (Matplotlib installation on Mavericks). I tried brew install matplotlib and the installation successfully ended. However, it installed MatPlotLib globally and not inside the currently activated VirtualEnv.

Is it possible to tell brew to install a package inside the current VirtualEnv?

Solution

I help maintain the homebrew-python tap. This is not and will not be supported and there probably isn't an easy way to do it.

This is due to the fact Homebrew installs packages to Homebrew's prefix, which is necessarily global. Homebrew doesn't know about virtualenvs or how to install packages into them. Changing that would violate a core assumption of Homebrew's design, i.e. that packages are always installed to their private Homebrew prefix.

Sorry!

Answered By - Tim Smith

Answer Checked By - Terry (WPSolving Volunteer)